Hurricane Katrina — After the Storm

Echoing Chalifoux’s assessment of the many mergers, he offers a prediction mixed with a bit of advice: “Smaller printers are going to have to invest in new technologies in order to meet the now important disaster recovery demands of larger clients.”

Disaster recovery is a big issue (and problem) for many small shops. According to Chalifoux, few printers had recovery plans before Katrina. Now, most have them, as some are required by their insurance carriers to have such a plan, and others are required by their customers to have insurance. PIA/ GATF has disaster plan templates and, after Katrina, PIAS got involved, helping printers with their recovery plans.